Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan,… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
“Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is… — David K. DeWolf Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science,… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand… — Thomas Alva Edison Copy Share Image
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Ending up with that gigantic outsized brain must have taken some sort of runaway evolutionary process, something that would push and push… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She… — Proclus Copy Share Image
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled to be working with the Science Channel. A chance to shine a light on the wonder and exciting possibilities of… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“As a scientist, I know that predicting outcomes is based as much on probability as on cause and effect. It isn’t always… — Leland Melvin Copy Share Image
“An expedition was organized at once, but despite the most scrupulous searching no one could find the Cape Arid colony. Subsequent searches… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The outraged citizens of Indonesia - lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists - should be speaking up; they should be shouting. And of course,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He… — John Schaff Copy Share Image
I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Thus far, environmental policy worldwide is undertaken much like a school group project which tends to involve grand objectives, paired with an… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Some people have told me I'm space-bound because of my love for space science and I couldn't agree more. I've always believed… — David Pettersen Copy Share Image
“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“Many Chinese-born scientists have returned from abroad to continue their research, not just out of patriotism but because Chinese research facilities have… — Rob Gifford Copy Share Image
You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
“scientific knowledge has taught [humans] much since the days of the Deluge, and it will increase their power still further. And, as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/anonymous-1_answers_the-most-spectacular-thing-about-johnny_2032971.jpg)
![“[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then…” quote by Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69e/lord-byron-356_advice_my-advice-will-one-day-be-found-with-oth_194480.jpg)
![“scientific knowledge has taught [humans] much since the days of the Deluge, and it will increase their power still further. And, as for the great necessities of Fate, against which there is no help, they will learn to endure them with resignation. Of what use to them is the mirage of wide acres in…” quote by Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e75/sigmund-freud-360_freud_scientific-knowledge-has-taught-humans-m_1429271.jpg)
